The frontier spirit is back in the Top End, but are they refusing to face up to realities? And warnings that new national animal welfare laws could lead to egg shortages.

Countrywide

Countrywide takes you outside the cities into regional Australia.

Australians waste around 7.6 million tonnes of food every year, with all the efforts of fertilising, irrigating and transporting thrown in the bin.

On Countrywide how competition for high speed internet is heating up in the bush, the animal welfare case in a piggery in WA and a warning from Climate scientists about the likelihood of 'the strongest El Niño ever measured, by far'.

A blue heeler from remote Western Australia has made an unlikely journey of almost 3,000 kilometres to find his new home.

One year on from its detection in Australia, the fight to eradicate the world's most devastating honey bee pest, varroa mite, is continuing.

Pastoralists in the north west expect the damage bill from tropical cyclone Ilsa will be in the tens of millions of dollars across the region.

After years of fluctuations, fruit and vegetable prices are expected to remain fairly stable for the rest of the 2023.

The Australian apple industry has high hopes for Bravo to be the next big thing in the international apple market.

Countrywide takes you outside the cities into regional Australia, talking about the food you eat, how it's produced, and what all this means for the Australian economy

Australian spanner crab companies hope their crustaceans could be the next product to regain entry to China, goat meat is more affordable than lamb but harder to find at your local butcher, and find out why strawberry prices have gone up at the supermarket.

Serious animal welfare concerns have been raised after 31 cattle died in the transport and offloading of a livestock vessel between Darwin and Broome. Australia's agricultural industry faces a nationwide challenge - accessibility but it doesn't have to be that way. When you want to grow dragon fruit in Samoa, expert help can be hard to come by so one farmer found an unlikely ally in a fellow farmer in Queensland

How a satellite outage caused chaos in Australia's ag industry, heated discussions in WA at meetings ahead of the phase out of the live sheep export industry and graziers are breaking the stereotype that forests and farming don't mix.

Cyclone Ilsa has touched down, how is barley, an agricultural crop, at the centre of helping improve Australia's relationship with China? A 'BIG' Australian thing could be getting a makeover, and what are cockles and how can you eat them?

Biosecurity remains top priority for Australia's agricultural industry after authorities seized 40 tonnes of high risk foods, why Australia is falling behind when it comes to getting electric vehicles, and how Easter food trends are changing.

Is carbon monoxide an ethical way to kill pigs, and who was Australia's best minister for agriculture?

How rural women are marking International Women's Day, ABARES and the floods in QLD.

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